Hello, Google Hangouts is not using standard XMPP Jingle signalling, but a variant that does the call over a chat room, so they can do multi-party calls. This variant is not publicly documented and so was never implemented in any telepathy CM. The best clients for Hangouts are Firefox and Chrome ;)
Olivier On Mon, 2015-09-21 at 23:40 +0200, Peter Bittner wrote: > I've got an Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS box running Empathy 3.8.6, and I've > got > a Google (apps) account configured. > > According to the documentation [1] voice and video chat should work > with Google, provided GTalk corresponds Hangouts today. I've checked > the installed codecs, and the ones listed in the docs [1] are > installed. > > Now, I do have Voice Call and Video Call in the user's context menu, > but for most users these options are grayed out. Not sure why: One > contact I called today was using their Google (Hangouts) account on a > Windows box and Psi messenger, another one is using their Google apps > account (i.e. custom domain, as I do) and is online now with Empathy. > (Interestingly, the former has the two options grayed out again now > that the account is set to "Away". Strange!) > > Is there any specific rule to when voice and video chat is available? > Peter > > [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Empathy/FAQ#Audio_and_Video_calls > _______________________________________________ > telepathy mailing list > telepathy@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy -- Olivier Crête olivier.cr...@collabora.com _______________________________________________ telepathy mailing list telepathy@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy
